The Daily Item: Swampscott woman works to help others in Mongolia at age 70: "Swampscott woman works to help others in Mongolia at age 70
By Kait Taylor / The Daily Item
SWAMPSCOTT — As a college student when the Peace Corps was founded in 1961, Judy Gates promised herself that one day she would join.
In 2008, at the age of 65, she did.
Leaving the comforts of her Marblehead home behind, Gates found herself in Mongolia drinking fermented goat’s milk and learning to split wood to build a fire to cook and keep warm in sub-zero temperatures, all while helping her town establish small businesses in a traditional herding society.
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